Schedule of Spring 2025 Workshops
All workshops are virtual and can be joined at .
Meeting ID: 769 953 6459
Writing Your Literature Review for a Thesis, Dissertation, or Article
- Wednesday, 1/29
- 6:00–7:00 p.m.
- Audience: Graduate students and faculty
- With Amiranda Adams, CSC Consultant
In this workshop, we’ll cover strategies for successfully developing your literature review, the purposes and goals of literature reviews, source synthesis, addressing entry points and gaps, structuring your review, and building arguments. We’ll discuss the literature review in the context of scholarly publications as well as longer works like books or dissertations.
Journal Reviewing 101: How reviewing works and how to become a journal reviewer
- Tuesday, 2/11
- 4:00–5:00 p.m.
- Audience: Graduate students and faculty
- With Dr. Dana Driscoll, Professor of Writing and Founding Director of the Center for Scholarly Communication
This workshop provides a thorough introduction to how to engage in peer review for academic journals. It describes how to become a blind peer reviewer, common ways that peer review happens, and common guidelines. This workshop is ideal for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of blind peer review or learn how to be a peer reviewer themselves.
Composing Strategies for Neurodivergent Writers
- Friday, 2/28
- 12:00–1:00 p.m.
- Audience: Faculty and graduate students
- With Madeleine Rosa, Associate Director of the Center for Scholarly Communication and Doctoral Student, Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD Program
While there are abundant strategies aimed at writing more and writing effectively, they do not take neurodivergent students’ needs into consideration. This workshop will explore strategies specifically designed to improve writing processes for neurodivergent writers, including those with Autism, Asperger’s syndrome, ADD/ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette syndrome, and other types of neurodiversity. This workshop will focus on advanced writing practices, such as writing in graduate coursework, dissertation/thesis, or independent academic work.
Dissertation and Thesis Writing Boot Camp
- Saturday, 3/1
- 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
- Audience: Graduate students
- Thesis and Dissertation Office, Applied Research Lab, Library, and CSC
A variety of options are available, including four workshops, a silent writing room, and consultants ready to help.
Academic American Conventions for Multilingual Writers for Dissertations, Publications, and Other Scholarly Work
- Wednesday, 3/19
- 1:00–2:00 p.m.
- Audience: Graduate students and faculty
- With Tyler Nuñez, Associate Director of the Center for Scholarly Communication and Doctoral Student, Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD Program
This workshop offers a thorough overview of how multilingual writers can implement academic writing while still maintaining their cultural and identity practices. We will discuss common American Academic English conventions for scholarly writing for international students. Topics will include considerations of audience and organization, managing sources and source use, and common challenges that international and multilingual writers face.
Leveraging AI Tools for Research Writing and Publication
- Thursday, 4/10 (Research Week)
- 2:00–3:00 p.m.
- Audience: Graduate students and faculty
- With Tyler Nuñez, Associate Director of the Center for Scholarly Communication and Doctoral Student, Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD Program
In a world with new AI tools emerging daily, and academia updating policies and guidelines to ensure fair use of these tools, this workshop will help research writers understand evolving writing for publication/journal guidelines in terms of AI. We will identify useful AI tools for research and data analysis, literature review construction, writing, editing, and support. All writers will have an opportunity to review journal guidelines in their fields and plan their AI use based on these tools.
Navigating the Blind Peer Review Process and Managing Large Amounts of Feedback
- Thursday, 4/10 (Research Week)
- 3:00–4:00 p.m.
- Audience: Graduate students and faculty
- With Dr. Dana Driscoll, Professor of Writing and Founding Director of the Center for Scholarly Communication
You’ve submitted your article, and now you’ve received extensive feedback and a “revise and resubmit” decision–now, what do you do? In this workshop, we will describe the different trajectories that peer-reviewed articles and book chapters may take, and the most common revision requests and how to navigate them. Participants will be given tools to break down the revise and resubmit feedback and create an actionable and manageable writing plan. Examples of R&R feedback, revision plans, and changes to texts will also be offered.